This 3D Cooking Simulator Tests Your Virtual Culinary Skills

Becoming a great chef takes a lot of practice, but the Tokyo Institute of Technology's 3D cooking simulator takes culinary enthusiasts out of the kitchen and into the virtual arena with this new, mess-free way to develop your skills on the stove.

Attached to series of strings and pulleys, the 3D cooking simulator uses a force feedback frying pan and spatula to create an interactive 3D experience that replicates all of the real-time conditions of cooking on a stove top. Using a heat conductor simulator, this device actually determines the degrees of simulated heat transferred from the stove to the pan.